Carex laevigata

Carex laevigata, the smooth-stalked sedge,[1] is a species of sedge. It lives in moist, shady environment in the lowlands of Western and Central Europe, particularly in alder–ash woodland.[2] It is distinguished from similar species, such as C. binervis and C. distans by the presence of tiny red dots on the utricles.[2] Carex laevigata was first described by James Edward Smith in 1800, in a paper in the journal Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[3]

Carex laevigata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
Order:
Poales
Family:
Cyperaceae
Genus:
Carex
Subgenus:
C. subg. Carex
Section:
C. sect. Spirostachyae
Species:
C. laevigata
Binomial name
Carex laevigata

References
  1. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. A. C. Jermy; D. A. Simpson; M. J. Y. Foley; M. S. Porter (2007). "Carex laevigata Sm.". Sedges of the British Isles. BSBI Handbook No. 1 (3rd ed.). Botanical Society of the British Isles. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-0-901158-35-2.
  3. James Edward Smith (1800). "Descriptions of five new British species of Carex". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 5 (19): 264–273. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1800.tb00600.x.


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